I am dieing to play this game, virtue's last reward is my fav vita game, I am sure this game will leave the same taste in my month. But I gave vita to my bro for a few month:(

I haven't finished Virtue's Last Reward yet, but I did finish 999. So far, I'd say danganronpa is better than both.

Originally Posted by DarkVincent07

How long did it take you?

I bought it day 1 as i said above but still haven't had the time to try it

About 30 hours on the harder setting. It is a pretty long game. Some of the controls take a little while to get used to as do some of the class trial mini-games, but after a little while you don't even notice. The story is pure Spike Chunsoft. Weird, mysterious, and...yeah...weird. The characters are awesome and probably the most memorable characterizations I've seen from Chunsoft so far (also played 999 and Zero Escape).

There are three modes: gentle, kind, and mean. Not really that much difference. Mean adds some more obstacles. For example, in the "Make your argument" segment of the class trials, you have "bullets" with arguments associated with them. You use these bullets to shoot down statements made by others when there is a contradiction. So the other characters will saying stuff and some of their words will be highlighted in yellow. If you have a bullet that contradicts the statement in yellow then you tap on the yellow words and shoot the bullet which serves as a Phoenix Wright "Objection!" mechanism. On "Mean", there will also be lines of text in purple that get in the way of your bullets. You have to pop those off using the touchpad on the back of the Vita in order to get a clear shot of the yellow text.

There are a few other disadvantages that are thrown in like there are times when you can slow stuff down, but on mean it is limited. There are other things that the tutorial for each mini-game point out that don't apply to "kind" settings, but I can't remember them all. I played on mean and it wasn't very difficult and it only really applies to the mini-games.

The rest of the game is more narrative and investigation. There are "free time" segments where you can choose to spend time with other characters (very much like Persona 3). Doing this help build up advantages that are applied in the mini-games (such as extra bullets, steadier aim, etc.). You also get a trophy for completing each character's "report card" which is basically spending time with them and finding out everything there is to know about them. After you finish the game, you can go back and replay segments to fill in parts you may have missed the first go and get the trophy. I'm anything but a trophy $#@!, but I fill compelled to Platinum this game!

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